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1 " God, you’re going to ruin me for anyone else,” Mel murmured against Roxie’s mouth. A grin stole her lips. “That’s the plan. "
― Katherine McIntyre , Strength Check (Dungeons and Dating #1)
2 " Mel’s grin widened. “A gorgeous woman hurling herself at me? Talk about the stuff fantasies are made of. "
3 " Roxie swallowed hard. This was why she didn’t do emotional talks. Lilah’s words burrowed under her skin like a chestburster, leaving her raw and exposed in the aftermath. "
4 " Jasper made gagging noises. “Don’t tell me this darling child is used to eating garbage. "
5 " Roxie pasted a smile on her face, but inside, she yearned like she stood in a field staring at the distant stars above—longing, longing, longing. "
6 " Roxie’s lips were still swollen from the heated kisses they’d shared, and she couldn’t help but lift her fingertips to brush against them, feeling the tender sting. "
7 " From the moment you walked through my front door, I was half in love with you. "
8 " Mel shook her head. “I mean, we could have a ‘whose friends hate them more’ competition, or you could explain to me what a DM is when you’re not sliding into someone’s? "
9 " Lilah elbowed her in the side. “Better wipe your mouth, you’re drooling.” Roxie lifted her middle finger. “I’m showing my support.” Lilah waggled her brows. “I bet she wouldn’t mind you supporting her all the way to the bedroom. "
10 " When it came to Mel, she just wanted. "
11 " You’re on a date here?” she asked, trying to break the awkward silence. “One that’s going horribly,” Jasper said. “This guy is so pretentious I want to gag, and not in the good way. "
12 " I’m not one for keeping people in closets,” Roxie responded. “In case you weren’t able to tell by the lesbian about me. "
13 " Roxie emanated this earthiness Mel found herself drawn to, and her low voice scraped like fingernails over skin, causing a delicious shudder. "
14 " Any normal day, the guilt would slip the chloroform over her mouth and smother her, but right now she burned. "
15 " Maybe her new roommate wouldn’t think she was the worst like her last one did. Or most of her friends back home. Fuck, she’d become so sick of standing on the outside looking in on friendships, tapping at the glass but never being able to step through. "
16 " With her hair pulled into a loose ponytail, she looked softer, like she’d been painted in watercolors. Seeing Roxie like this didn’t help tamp the flutter in her chest even a little bit. "
17 " Roxie arched a brow. “I think I’m familiar with mortifying, doll. Remember, I’m driving my mother to prison tomorrow.” “Ah, that old chestnut,” Mel teased back, trying to cling to her composure. "
18 " The tension stretched at her insides like a gray morning with that crisp scent of impending snow, filled with anticipation of something more. "
19 " Roxie swallowed hard and headed to the kitchen, feeling the weight of that woman’s presence like a vulture tearing at the scraps that remained. "
20 " Maybe those relationships cracked for a reason—to let the light in. "